Tell Fairy Non Bio how many loads of washing your household does a week - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[JustineBMumsnet]

Fairy Non Bio is sponsoring the Mumsnet Talk App and in light of this they’d like to see what you have to talk about when it comes to your household washing schedule. Do you manage to get by on just a couple of loads a week or do four a day just to keep up with your kids? Perhaps you’re lucky enough to be able to send it all away to be done for you? Do you have a set day for each kind of washing load or just shove things in as they look like they might need doing? Whatever your washing schedule, let Fairy Non Bio know by sharing in a post below.

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So, alongside the Fairy Non Bio sponsorship of the Mumsnet Talk App, they’d like you to talk about the washing schedule your household has. If you avidly check out Mumsnet's talk boards, you should download the app for yourself. It's free, and allows you to be part of the conversation wherever you are!

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Thanks, and good luck with the prize draw!

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[FlukeSkyeRunner]

4-6 washes a week for four of us. My kids aren't particularly messy 😊

[CopperPan]

About 5 loads a week, there's five of us. I don't really have a system, I just put a load on when I know I'm going to be home for a while so I can be there to take it out. We hang clothes up to dry on indoor airers so I need to get it out the machine quickly to avoid it festering and getting wrinkles.

[DoloresVanCartier]

Myself, DP and 12 yo DS.
Towels x 1
Bedding x 1
Colours x 5
Whites x 3

Although it feels like it's never ending!

[SpringTown46]

Two regular washes daily; one cottons, one synthetics

Shirts wash x 1 Saturdays

weekly bedding washes x three loads Fridays

pet bedding fortnightly x 4 loads, no fixed day, depends on time and space for drying

so an average of around 20 loads per week.

[AalyaSecura]

4 of us:
Whites X1
Darks x2 or x3
Hand washing in machine x1
Bedding x1
Towels x1
Filthy football kit x1

I have a set routine over Friday to Monday, so that uniform, work clothes and kits are ready when needed.

[WowOoo]

4 people here:
A load most days of the week. One week it will be 6 days and 6 loads and the next when I do bedding also it will be 7 or 8 loads per week.

It does seem never-ending.My friend thinks I'm nuts to wash school shirts after one wear. When I showed her a shirt after one wear, she agreed! Mucky buggers.

[StillNoFuckingEyeDeer]

About 8-10 loads a week. (Me, DH, 3DC) The washing isn't the problem, it's getting it all dried in the winter. We don't have a tumble dryer and there's not much space for indoor drying.

[Jenniferturkington]

About six loads a week here. We are a family of five (3 kids all under 9)

[throwingpebbles]

2 adults, 4 kids (inc a semi-continent toddler) - probably at least 2 loads/day most days. Probably at least 10 loads /week but I do it on a quick wash

[Hopezibah]

we're a family of 5 in total. No pets currently. Washload goes on every night and usually another in the day so 1-2 loads a day i would guess. Plus an extra 2 for bedding a week.

So total for the week approx 15. Gosh that is a lot when counted up like that!

[FlouncingInAWinterWonderland]

1 soak wash of whites, 1 lights, 3 or 4 mixed wash, either towels or beds (I alternate so both done fourtnightly) sports kits and shoes if they're used, i wash sofas, chair seat pads and lounge chair covers monthly (joys of having dyspraxia and lots of spills in family). Extra part loads of bedding as and when those incidents occur. We have throws on the sofas and chairs these and scatter cushion covers are washed as a load most weeks.

[Maiyakat]

3-4 loads a week, just 2 of us.

[Starlingsintheslipstream]

I do a wash every night, committing the Mumsnet cardinal sin of setting my machine to come on during the night. I'd rather keep on top of it all as there are five of us.

I broadly separate into either whites, mixed colours or darks.

[Thistly]

8-9 with an occasional wet bed, a dust allergic, and a toddler.

[IDismyname]

I used to do about 7 loads a week, but since DS has gone off travelling, our laundry has almost halved!

I would say DH and I make about 4 loads including bedding.

1 x whites
1 x darks
1 x blues
1 x pinks/ reds

[RueDeDay]

Just me and DD... I do three loads a week. Two of clothes/towels, one of bedding. One of the happier side effects of the divorce is how much less washing/cleaning I have to do!!

[BrieAndChilli]

getting to the bottom of the laundry basket is a cause for celebration in our house it happens so rarely!!
2 adults and 3 kids means a lot of laundry, 1 child has bowel problems so often has a couple of changes of clothes a day, which then need to be washed seperatley, both adults do a lot of running /gym classes so that creates a lot of extra washing, 2 kids wet the bed so beds are probably changed about 3 times a week.
I would say it's about 15 loads a week.
Currently there is a load in the washing machine waiting to be taken out and dried, a load in the tumble dryer waiting to be put away, a pile of clean on the kitchen table to be put away, a basket of kids clothes on the top landing to be put away, a loaf waiting to go in the washing machine and I expect at least a load on the laundry basket.

[MakeTeaNotWar]

Probably 3 a week - mostly mixed / dark. I don't have enough whites to make a full load weekly so that might be every fortnight. Family of 4 - 2 adults and 2 x young children.

[hairypaws]

2 X adults and 2 X kids (10 & 14) here.

Whites X 1
Colours X 5
Towels X 1
Bedding X 1 or 2

Sometimes extra towels are chucked in with colours too.

[shatteredstudentmum]

I wash Friday night/ Saturday, 2 loads of uniform and work shirts etc, a load of sports kit, load of pants and socks, load of white usually every other week and then one or two loads of whatever is left. So 5 / 6 a week. Then towels / bedding on top of that.

[fish88]

At least 1 a day, some days 2. Probably 5 lots of colours, 2 whites, 1 bedding and 1 towels a week.

[Endmoor1405]

Oh god this makes me feel like I do waaaayyyy too much washing. It's all dirty though I promise!! OH is a dairy farmer so just take that into account haha!!

Probably 4 loads of darks
1 load of colours
1 load of whites
2 loads of bedding/towels
At least 7 loads of boiler suits/body warmers

On a clean week I might get away with about 12 washes but most weeks it will be somewhere in the region of 15 with some being about 20 (such as this week when I've been milking too so there's double the number of boiler suits and mucky body warmers, or when we have family stay and have more beds and towels to wash)

There's only two of us!!

[anotherbloodycyclist]

2 adults, 2 teens. At least 9 loads a week, though 2-3 of that is solely muddy sports gear (cross country season).

[DinosaursRoar]

2 adults, 2 dcs, at least one wash a day, often 2. It just seems to multiply by itself....

[ILostItInTheEarlyNineties]

1 wash per day, alternating between lights, darks or colours. An extra wash at the weekend for husband's filthy work clothes (builder).